Skeleton Crew - Blog Posts
Jod na nawood: I lived in a hole in the ground when she (a jedi) found me!!!!
Me: 🤨 in a hole in the ground??? There lived a hobbit????
“It’s the same picture.” When those credits started cascading this is the first thing I thought of.
# I wanna see Jude Law go swimmin’ in gold
Hunter: Even if it's her, I'll kill that boy. I made it clear that he should not approach her closer than three kilometers. The little girl will be without a biological father, but then there are us.
Omega: Should I even say I'm not their mother?
SM-33: Tell that to that pirate whose arms you twisted so that he can't use them. Or the thug who's paralyzed from the neck down. Or that group of pirates who stutter at the mention of your name.
Hunter: So, are you teaching at the republican flight academy there, or are you seizing power in the criminal world?
Crosshair and Wrecker in the background: * proud of their girl*
If Omega had found the Skeleton Crew instead of Jod (Part 2)
Crosshair: "Please, tell me none of those are yours."
Wrecker: "Aww, look! Baby Omega's!"
Fern: *Frowns from her spot on Omega's back* "We're not hers, and we're not babies!"
Hunter: "Can we talk about this for a second?"
Omega: *Brushing KB's hair* "What? I've taken care of kids before!"
Hunter: "That was a prison break, Omega! And Sami still has nightmares about the time you released a rampaging zillo beast onto the facility!"
Wim: "Cool..."
Echo: *Whispers* "Are we sure the blonde one isn't hers?"
Pancake. I've been thinking about this for a few days.... Why do I want to bring SM-33 and Omega together? Purely two adult team members who flirt with each other, first sarcastically (it's clear from whom Omega has this trait), then because they understood that nothing would work out for them, but it became their thing, a kind of friendly joke, which eventually led to the fact that they really got together.
If Omega had found the Skeleton Crew instead of Jod...
Hunter: *On Pabu* "We're getting a call from Omega!"
Omega: *Holding KB and Neel while Fern has climbed onto her back and Wim is hugging her leg* "Hi everyone!"
The Bad Batch: "..."
Omega: "Do you know where At Attin is?"
SM-33: "Can't say I've heard of-"
The Bad Batch: We are grandfathers!!!!
If Omega had found the Skeleton Crew instead of Jod...
Hunter: *On Pabu* "We're getting a call from Omega!"
Omega: *Holding KB and Neel while Fern has climbed onto her back and Wim is hugging her leg* "Hi everyone!"
The Bad Batch: "..."
Omega: "Do you know where At Attin is?"
SM-33: "Can't say I've heard of-"
I love old skrunkly men
I say as I feverishly scribble as many as I can (wow, what a funny way to say I’m straight)
EVERYBODY THIS IS AN EMERGANCY
SKELETON CREW OST FINALLY RELEASED
LISTEN TO IT RIGHT NOW!
THE WAY FERNS FACE LIGHTS UP WHEN SHE REALIZES THAT SM-33 IS ALIVE AND WELL <33333
SKELETON CREW | 1.08: THE REAL GOOD GUYS
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Me: looks like there’s a new star wars show on disney. eh, I’m bored I’ll watch it
Me, two episodes in:
I’d kill for him. I’d die for him. I’d do BOTH to SPITE GOD. He’s earned the right to kill that nasty son of a bitch jod, as a treat. LET SM-33 SAY PROFANITY LET HIM HAVE A SAILORS MOUTH HE DESERVES IT
made a low effort clip of the rennod shanty on my phone after rewatching 1x06 so here it is if any of you want it
Me: looks like there’s a new star wars show on disney. eh, I’m bored I’ll watch it
Me, two episodes in:
I’d kill for him. I’d die for him. I’d do BOTH to SPITE GOD. He’s earned the right to kill that nasty son of a bitch jod, as a treat. LET SM-33 SAY PROFANITY LET HIM HAVE A SAILORS MOUTH HE DESERVES IT
I have some words about this idea.
First of all, I don't mean to go around saying "No, that can't happen" or "Your opinion is trash" or something along those lines. I just want to give my own opinions on this topic, honest and simple, take it or leave it.
Idk, I guess this is some slight spoiler territory? I'll put a border just in case.
Personally, I don't think Luke potentially appearing at the end could be compared to "Andor" for a number of reasons.
Firstly, "Andor" was specifically created to lead directly into "Rogue One". "Skeleton Crew" has so far been entirely its own thing with absolutely minimal tie-ins to other projects (like the New Republic X-Wing patrols and the rise of pirates) and minimal cameos (they could have easily shoed in Carson Teva or Zeb, or somebody like that). Vane is pretty much the only previously established character who has appeared and I personally don't find that problematic because it's not impossible to imagine a minor character like him to be hopping from crew to crew to make a living in the aftermath of "Mando" season 3.
As such, I think "Skeleton Crew" deserves a conclusion that is unique to itself, devoid of any immediate intermeddling of big names that honestly won't even lead into anything. Having Luke appear would be a neat cameo, but other than that, it would serve no purpose and honestly would even be detrimental to the entire build-up so far. The only real pay-off I can think of would be Wim finally meeting a real Jedi in the flesh, but other than that, there is basically nothing that has been set up so far that could justify Luke's presence. Nobody is seeking a Jedi mentor, nor has the threat of piracy become so apparent to the New Republic that they're considering bringing in their most powerful ally to deal with it.
Furthermore, as far as we know, the kids and SM-33 are the only ones who are actually aware that Jod is Force-sensitive. Nobody else so far has suggested that they know anything about that, not his crew, not his previous acquaintances. Therefore, it is unlikely Luke would even know about him at all since the last two times that we've seen/heard of him take up a pupil, one was dialing him directly through the Force and the other was his nephew.
Having said that, I do agree that having some sort of tie-in to a future story could be interesting, if it has a valid pay-off. Considering At Attin is the last Old Republic credit production planet, it isn't unlikely that it might become a key asset in the New Republic's development or even Thrawn's return.
So now that I've laid out those arguments, how do I find it justifyable to put a scene of building a piece of the Death Star in a series about the guy who will eventually steal the Death Star plans? Other than foreshadowing and fan service? We get to see just how much the Empire is desperate to manage and control every aspect of its populace, all the way down to having its criminals, big and small, rebels and jaywalkers, become nothing more than tiny, determined, replaceable cogs which build up its massive war machine amd how that despair eventually leads to it's downfall, both in the series with the impossible prison break and eventually with the destruction of the Death Star.
Plus the irony that Cassian is helping in the construction of something so monumental he will eventually help destroy, but I guess that can already fall under foreshadowing.
Now that Jod is decidedly proven to be a ruthless, Force using pirate who now has a lightsaber, it’s possible that Luke could show up in the finale. And if he does, I don’t want to hear ANY cries about fan service or overuse, because A) Luke has appeared in precisely two episodes of any live action shows (not counting young Luke in Obi Wan), and he was the most underutilized character in the sequels (apart from Lando) and the one who suffered the most character assassination. He sure as hell hasn’t been over utilized; and B) it makes as much in-universe sense for the last Jedi Master in the Galaxy to be interested in a Force sensitive ruthless pirate with a lightsaber who is on the trail of a long lost Old Republic planet that could potentially have Jedi relics hidden somewhere on the surface (and to have heard of it through his New Republic contacts in regard to underworld/Imperial Remnant buildup) as it does for a main member of the strike team to steal the Death Star plans to have once been put to work by the Empire building panels for the Death Star superlaser while in prison for jaywalking.
What's interesting to me about Jod and his relationship with the kids by the end of the series is that it's so in-between.
It's not "actually I've come to care for these kids and I will give up my plan to protect them" but it's also not just that he's evil and doesn't care about them.
He does betray them and he does a lot of harm. He threatens them and their families and their home in a very genuine and traumatic way. He brings destruction and danger down on their home. He does not make the turn to help them or side with them against the other pirates. He stays on his course, stays a bad guy.
But at the same time, as much as he threatens them (in the pirate horde, in the ship and on At Attin) and their family, he doesn't actually hurt them. (in fact I think the only ones we see him actually physically hurt are 1. SM-33. 2. The werewolf pirate guy 3. the supervisor droid). And I don't know that the threats are empty, but he's certainly very reluctant to actually enact that violence, and his plan might not have fallen through if he had been more willing to hurt them. He's not willing to stop for the sake of the kids, but he'd much rather get through his plan without harming them. And when he KB is falling and he thinks she probably died there is real fear and regret in his face. He didn't want that.
All of this is an outpouring of his misguided worldview. Because again, Jod isn't a villain who can't recognize right and wrong. He knows what Good is, he's seen it. But his problem is despair so he believes that Good is not worth it, and is not powerful enough to make a difference. And because of that he becomes the manifestation of the cruel place he believes the world to be. The good in him is THERE but its not strong enough to really change him, but it's because his despair doesn't believe it can be. And so he becomes the very thing that made him-- he watched his mentor/parental figure killed in front of him, and he stands there threatening to do the same thing to Wim and Fern.
But he doesn't, because he isn't quite the villain that the Empire represents. Even though the difference doesn't come from him actively making a choice for Good, it does come from there being Good still in him, even just in the form of hesitation. Good is still powerful even when he's denying it. And then little ember in him is not what saves the day--that's the kids and their families and the New Republic. But it is there and it does mean that even though he stays a villain there is that moment of Wim calling out to him, there is still that spark of hope that Jod can be saved one day too.
this is how i imagen if my skelebone met your oc
@honey-rose-maze